Memoirs, prose and travel photos from a four year expatriation to France with trips to Italy, the Netherlands and England combined with random musings of a jewelry designer specializing in hand woven beadwork and wire-wrapped original creations.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

This straw hat originally had a wide brim, which I removed. Without the brim it resembled a 1950s style pillbox hat, so I added a length of leopard ribbon to the bottom of the hat, a generous amount of faux rhinestones and netting dotted with very faux rhinestones. I gathered the netting with long stitches so it would fan out and in the center of the fan I added a pretty vintage brooch that I purchased in France. You can almost hear this feisty leopard roar! Grrrrr!